English version On France 24, Ali Bongo’s attorney, wanting to demonstrate that one could completely recover from a stroke, took as an example the lawyer Mombembe who also suffered a stroke and would have recovered completely. However, the truth seems quite different as this response by Moubembe demonstrates:

"My colleague compares our Head of State to Me, a simple Citizen or Governed. But, I have known only one threat of a mystical stroke (so it was never a medical stroke as some have undergone with one or several surgeries). Indeed, having woken up the morning of Saturday, November 1, 2013 (All Saints Day of the day of dead), I found that I had lost the “reading” function without being deaf, blind, disabled, etc. On Monday morning, November 03, 2013, I was seen at 8am by my regular Ophthalmologist, Ms. Milebou, the current Senate Speaker, who consulted me and immediately made contact with her colleague at El Rapha Polyclinic. This threat of a probable Cardiovascular Disease (CVA…

English version Dear readers, before any presidential election, candidates are required to undergo a medical examination; Why ? In Gabon, during the filing process by candidates for the presidential elections, Mborantsuo’s Constitutional Court requires that each candidate undergoes a rigorous medical examination. Without this element, the Constitutional Court does not validate the candidacy. For Mborantsuo and her court, this medical examination is therefore important because this court believes that the physical, moral, intellectual and psychological health of the candidates is essential to any person serving in the office of President of the Republic. Any candidate who does not meet all the medical requirements for the position of President, could not be validated. We all know that last October, Ali Bongo suffered a serious health problem. Specifically, he had a stroke. It is obvious to many Gabonese that the individual who is presented to them as able to continue to govern Gabon, is ve…

English version La Lettre du Continent gives us in its last edition, a very serious information which enlighten us very well on what is being put in place in Gabon. It turns out that the wiretapping center, the Silam, based in the presidency of the republic, has just been entrusted by Laccruche-Alihanga, with the regulation of all telecommunications in Gabon. The boss of Silam, the French Jean-Charles Solon, was appointed by the Council of Ministers, within the council of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Post (Arcep). He also remains advisor to the presidency. Silam depends only on the presidency and does not report to any other institution in the country. This service was set up in Gabon by the French DGSE officer, Colonel Maurice Marion. Like Marion, Jean-Charles Solon also comes from the DGSE. Its mission is also now to monitor the internet in Gabon. Solon also controls Gabon's share in the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) submarine fiber optic cable project o…

English version Africa Energy Intelligence informs us that the Malaysian company Petronas will fill the coffers of the Gabonese state. In other words, dear readers, the Bongo will still enrich themselves at our expense! The Gabonese oil ministry has obtained upon signing concession contracts for F12 and F13 offshore blocks, from the company Petronas, bonuses valued at $ 40 million on the Yitu block (F12) and $ 23 million on the Meboun block (F13). That is a total of 63 million dollars, that is to say 37 billion CFA francs (at today’s rate). Not without a sense of irony, this publication tells us that all this would have been validated by Ali Bongo. Lacruche Alihanga must be rubbing his hands.

Dear readers, any reflection on the future must be rooted in a solid knowledge of the past. To this end, the recent gestures of the regime’s religious figures, calling for the Gabonese people to accept for the umpteenth time, the eternal pax-bongoista. When we look at the history of Basil Mve-Engone, we must admit that his current posture is no exception. It is worth remembering that as a bishop, Basil Mve-Engone, has never said anything about the massacres of August 2016 perpetrated by Ali Bongo. Dear readers, when we look at Basil Mve Engone, we realize without any particular effort that it is the Bongo regime that totally controls the clergy. Today, unfortunately, there is no objective or even ideological distance between the bosses of the Gabonese Catholic Church and the Bongo regime. The regime uses religions to encourage the Gabonese people to develop an unconditional loyalty to those in power. The regime’s advisors, who have an education, know that God is often the …